Andy Monk – Why the Rush!

Analogue (film) photography around Wellington and the other main centers is an  untapped wellspring of talent and potentially, a critical material and process to always  guarantee photography does not become a sub-genre of digital art.

It is the Feldenkrais principle where the photographer spends more time before  capture, fine tuning or waiting for a moment – it is often a boundless experimentation  to capture an anomaly. Each film emulsion carries an individual expression of the  scene captured and combined

Part of this aesthetic has become increasingly popular with new generation of casual  photographer as they suffer digital everything else, pressured for time and challenging  themselves and peers for individual expression; film photography offers them all low  entry costs and authenticity that is absent in the automated filters ever present on  smartphones.

This is a quick look at the individualism of film photography on Wellington streets  and further afield.

Thurs 25th from 7pm – Tararua Tramping Club